On stone with wife Mahalah E. Buckles
Both died in a house fire
Oxford Register
Oxford, Kansas
Friday, May 19, 1905
page 5
Wm. Buckles and Wife Dead.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Buckles an aged and almost helpless couple living at Udall were burned to death in the destruction of their house by fire early Monday morning. The fire was discovered by W.A. Haney and his son Hosea, who live across the alley, about 4:30 in the morning. The kitchen on the east was then entirely consumed, and athe front part of the house a roaring furnace. They broke in the door, but were driven back by the flames. A like condition confronted them at the window. From the latter they could just see Mrs. Buckles kneeling by the bed. She was blind and crippled and it is thought she had gotten that far before succumbing to the smoke and heat.
The house and contents were entirely consumed and only the trunks of the bodies left, the head and limbs being burned off. It is thought that the origin of the fire was from the stove. They were to come to Winfield Monday to visit their sons, and it is believed that he got up about four to build up the fire, using cobs and coal oil, and then went back to bed and slept. The latter is indicated by the fact that the bodies were found side by side. He was ninety and she was eighty-two years old.
They have two sons in Winfield, James Buckles, who is section hand on the Santa Fe, and William Buckles, who works on the Bert Snyder's fruit farm. A grandsom, Frank Powers, is one of the section foreman of the Santa Fe here. - Winfield Courier.
Wm. Buckles and wife were old residents of Oxford before moving to Udall. They came to Kansas from Illinois thirty-five years ago and have been married sixty-seven years. They have three sons and three daughters living, one son is resting beside them in the Oxford cemetery.
Their grandchildren were pall bearers at their funeral. B.F. Stallings of the Christian church preached the funeral Tuesday at 11 o'clock. The relatives have the sympathy of all in this, their sad bereavement.
(transcribed by Judy Mayfield)
Both died in a house fire
Oxford Register
Oxford, Kansas
Friday, May 19, 1905
page 5
Wm. Buckles and Wife Dead.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Buckles an aged and almost helpless couple living at Udall were burned to death in the destruction of their house by fire early Monday morning. The fire was discovered by W.A. Haney and his son Hosea, who live across the alley, about 4:30 in the morning. The kitchen on the east was then entirely consumed, and athe front part of the house a roaring furnace. They broke in the door, but were driven back by the flames. A like condition confronted them at the window. From the latter they could just see Mrs. Buckles kneeling by the bed. She was blind and crippled and it is thought she had gotten that far before succumbing to the smoke and heat.
The house and contents were entirely consumed and only the trunks of the bodies left, the head and limbs being burned off. It is thought that the origin of the fire was from the stove. They were to come to Winfield Monday to visit their sons, and it is believed that he got up about four to build up the fire, using cobs and coal oil, and then went back to bed and slept. The latter is indicated by the fact that the bodies were found side by side. He was ninety and she was eighty-two years old.
They have two sons in Winfield, James Buckles, who is section hand on the Santa Fe, and William Buckles, who works on the Bert Snyder's fruit farm. A grandsom, Frank Powers, is one of the section foreman of the Santa Fe here. - Winfield Courier.
Wm. Buckles and wife were old residents of Oxford before moving to Udall. They came to Kansas from Illinois thirty-five years ago and have been married sixty-seven years. They have three sons and three daughters living, one son is resting beside them in the Oxford cemetery.
Their grandchildren were pall bearers at their funeral. B.F. Stallings of the Christian church preached the funeral Tuesday at 11 o'clock. The relatives have the sympathy of all in this, their sad bereavement.
(transcribed by Judy Mayfield)
On stone with wife Mahalah E. Buckles
Both died in a house fire
Oxford Register
Oxford, Kansas
Friday, May 19, 1905
page 5
Wm. Buckles and Wife Dead.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Buckles an aged and almost helpless couple living at Udall were burned to death in the destruction of their house by fire early Monday morning. The fire was discovered by W.A. Haney and his son Hosea, who live across the alley, about 4:30 in the morning. The kitchen on the east was then entirely consumed, and athe front part of the house a roaring furnace. They broke in the door, but were driven back by the flames. A like condition confronted them at the window. From the latter they could just see Mrs. Buckles kneeling by the bed. She was blind and crippled and it is thought she had gotten that far before succumbing to the smoke and heat.
The house and contents were entirely consumed and only the trunks of the bodies left, the head and limbs being burned off. It is thought that the origin of the fire was from the stove. They were to come to Winfield Monday to visit their sons, and it is believed that he got up about four to build up the fire, using cobs and coal oil, and then went back to bed and slept. The latter is indicated by the fact that the bodies were found side by side. He was ninety and she was eighty-two years old.
They have two sons in Winfield, James Buckles, who is section hand on the Santa Fe, and William Buckles, who works on the Bert Snyder's fruit farm. A grandsom, Frank Powers, is one of the section foreman of the Santa Fe here. - Winfield Courier.
Wm. Buckles and wife were old residents of Oxford before moving to Udall. They came to Kansas from Illinois thirty-five years ago and have been married sixty-seven years. They have three sons and three daughters living, one son is resting beside them in the Oxford cemetery.
Their grandchildren were pall bearers at their funeral. B.F. Stallings of the Christian church preached the funeral Tuesday at 11 o'clock. The relatives have the sympathy of all in this, their sad bereavement.
(transcribed by Judy Mayfield)
Both died in a house fire
Oxford Register
Oxford, Kansas
Friday, May 19, 1905
page 5
Wm. Buckles and Wife Dead.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Buckles an aged and almost helpless couple living at Udall were burned to death in the destruction of their house by fire early Monday morning. The fire was discovered by W.A. Haney and his son Hosea, who live across the alley, about 4:30 in the morning. The kitchen on the east was then entirely consumed, and athe front part of the house a roaring furnace. They broke in the door, but were driven back by the flames. A like condition confronted them at the window. From the latter they could just see Mrs. Buckles kneeling by the bed. She was blind and crippled and it is thought she had gotten that far before succumbing to the smoke and heat.
The house and contents were entirely consumed and only the trunks of the bodies left, the head and limbs being burned off. It is thought that the origin of the fire was from the stove. They were to come to Winfield Monday to visit their sons, and it is believed that he got up about four to build up the fire, using cobs and coal oil, and then went back to bed and slept. The latter is indicated by the fact that the bodies were found side by side. He was ninety and she was eighty-two years old.
They have two sons in Winfield, James Buckles, who is section hand on the Santa Fe, and William Buckles, who works on the Bert Snyder's fruit farm. A grandsom, Frank Powers, is one of the section foreman of the Santa Fe here. - Winfield Courier.
Wm. Buckles and wife were old residents of Oxford before moving to Udall. They came to Kansas from Illinois thirty-five years ago and have been married sixty-seven years. They have three sons and three daughters living, one son is resting beside them in the Oxford cemetery.
Their grandchildren were pall bearers at their funeral. B.F. Stallings of the Christian church preached the funeral Tuesday at 11 o'clock. The relatives have the sympathy of all in this, their sad bereavement.
(transcribed by Judy Mayfield)
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